Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-03-24
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letters. es-s
RETURN of the untidy dragging skirt.
Is threatened.
\ sr"NoEs have been discovered in the
lake OF Chautauqua.
| SOME Gcorgians get 800 bushels OF swee,
potatoes out OF an acre.
MRS. DKvsx refused 20 take on her bustls
before going TO the gallows.
| THE antlcrs OF ESQ elk were Skinned from
oregon 10 England last year.
sAM. JosRs preached twice at Toronto.
recently, making 2,ooo thereby.
A MOTHER OF triplcts" writes TO Mrs
hendricks for money to buy a cow.
NO Mans Land, Kas, and the Stats al
connecticut are about the same size.
JUDGE MASSEY, Of Douglassville. Ga.
KILLED eleven partridgcs at one shot.
The three Cole brothers, OF Harrison.
w. nave their hearts on the right side.
1T would be well II experts were to az.
anime railroad bridges b.fore the accidents.
WELL Mt Yakutsk. Siberia, ha. been
estimated TO be frozen to depth of 0I2
feet. %
IHEoDoRE TlLroS Is living in Paris and
dcvoung himself In part TO literary pur-
suits.
ALLEGED corruption in the municipal
affairs OF Brooklyn is being investi-
gated.
The King of Italy now has whole Pull.
man car 10 himself when he wants 70
travel. ~
A TwESrY-Erour-rorp cat. with ono vel.
low and one green eye, is exhibited in New
Haven =
To MAINTAIN peace for the next seven
years Germany is TO have an army OF 40s,.
400 men.
MRs. BAYARp TAYLOR and her daughter
Lillian have returned TO Germany TO reside
permanently
JEFFERSON DAVIS says he is too old 70
travel, and never expects TO be in Wash
ington again.
The Empress OF Austria is said to have
literary ambitions and is Intending TO pub
lish book soon.
AN apple tree over 100 years old and four
ana half feet in diameter, has cen cut
down in Lyme, Conn.
TniRTHEs OF the noted twenty passes of
the Rocky Mountains are more than 1000
feet above the sea level.
WORK on the steam cruisers, Boston.
Atlanta and Chicago, has been suspended
Tor lack OF appropriation.
SINCE the adjournment of Congress n
marble bust of John C.'Calhoun has been
placed In the Senate gallery.
CARDINAL MANNING has heartily indorsod
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
toward the Knights OF Labor.
MAMIE DEvALi, notorious courtcsan OF
Indiana and Tennessee, viii reform since
she has been left large fortune.
The Louisville and Nashville will build
this year 13i miles of new railroad, of
which l0i miles will be in Kentucky.
a VILLAGE, suburban TO Atlanta, Ga, and
to be exclusively for colored people. has
been laid out and is 10 be Incorporated.
CHARLES III. HgrsER, an umbrella mender
In Pittsburgh, has inherited "a fortune OF
$4,000 from cousin who died in Aus.
tralia.
THE President has given his check for
300 to the fund for the erection of a
monument 10 the late Vice President Hem
bricks.
TnE inventor Of the repeating-rihe re-
Gently adopted for the Austrian army has
been decorated by Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The name Dakota is a corruption OF "Pa-
ha-sota," meaning many heads-the crani-
ums OF buffsloes being scattered thick on
all the trails.
A SouTH CARoLISA mother has q record
OF seventeen children in nine years. The
first was solitary voyager. The others
came in pairs.
IT costs the Government for each United
States Senator 5000 year salary and
t5,307 year additional for attendants and
incidental expenses.
THE President, treasurer and counsellor
Of the "British-American Claim Agency"
were arrested in New York, few days
ago, charged with fraud.
AT Detroit, Mich, Fred Frisbee said TO
his landlady: 'If you insist on me paying
my board bill will kill myself She in.
sisted. He shot himself
The widow OF Garibaldi lives in quiet
street OF Turin, the walls OF her little par
lor covered with flags, medals and other
mementOes OF the dead hero.
AN inmate OF the MiddIetown IN. W
Asylum is worth 10000. He became in.
sane over religion, and imagines he is
President Of the United States.
Mr.. CoSNERY, the new secretary OF le.
cation 20 Mexico, will leave for his post
about the last OF this month. Mr.. Connery
will collect the data for a history OF Mex-
ico.
JosEPH CARTER, Of Recklesstown, n. D.,
recently butchercd thirty remarkably hne
hogs. Tho lightest weighed Gg5 pounds the
heaviest SO; and the total weight was
2l.3S4 pounds.
JAMES TAYLOR, while digging a we'll on
his farm near Excelsior, Wis, found In a
bed OF gravel twenty feet below tho sur.
face lot Of beautiful amethysts and one
very large and valuable ruby.
PEoPLE who buy fancy candy and End Il
70 be very sticky may lay this hsttering
righteousness 70 their souls, namely: That
they are eating glucose, which IL the out.
put OF cornstarch and sulphuric acid.
On one OF the principal streets OF Thom.
aston, Ga, the same room IL occupied by q
physician and shoemaker-the physicians
ofice being in front and the shoemakeris
shop in the rear. Over tho door is chalked
the sign; we repair both sole and
body"
MRs. MARION ToDD is a successful law
yer In Albion, Mich. Her first case was
for railroad conductor against rich cor
poration, and she won u. She IL now
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